Paxton
Paxton is a town in Walton County, Florida, United States. Located near Britton Hill on the Alabama–Florida state line, it has the highest elevation of any in Florida.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Hamlet with 793 residents
- Description: town in Walton County, Florida
- Also known as: “Paxton, FL” and “Paxton, Florida”
- Postal code: 32538
Places of Interest
Highlights include Britton Hill.
Britton Hill
Peak
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Britton Hill is the highest natural point in the state of Florida, United States, with a summit elevation of 345 ft above mean sea level. Britton Hill is the lowest state highpoint in the United States, 103 ft lower than the second-lowest U.S. state highpoint, Ebright Azimuth in Delaware, and far lower than many skyscrapers in Miami, Jacksonville, Tampa and Orlando. Britton Hill is situated 1½ miles east of Paxton.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Florala and Lockhart.
Florala
Village
Florala is a town in Covington County, Alabama, United States. At the 2020 census, the population was 1,923. Florala is situated 2 miles northwest of Paxton.
Lockhart
Village
Photo: Ke4roh, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lockhart is a town in Covington County, Alabama, United States. At the 2020 census, the population was 445. Lockhart is situated 3 miles northwest of Paxton.
Paxton
- Categories: town in the United States and locality
- Location: Walton County, Florida, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
30.98157° or 30° 58′ 54″ northLongitude
-86.30745° or 86° 18′ 27″ westPopulation
793Elevation
318 feet (97 metres)United Nations Location Code
US PX9Open location code
862MXMJV+J2OpenStreetMap ID
node 153421180OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Paxton” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “باكستون”
- Basque: “Paxton”
- Catalan: “Paxton”
- Cebuano: “Paxton”
- Chechen: “Пакстон”
- Chinese: “Paxton”
- Chinese: “帕克斯頓”
- Chinese: “帕克斯顿”
- Dutch: “Paxton”
- French: “Paxton”
- German: “Paxton”
- Gilaki: “پکستن (فلؤريدا)”
- Gilaki: “پکستن”
- Haitian: “Paxton, Florid”
- Haitian: “Paxton”
- Hungarian: “Paxton”
- Italian: “Paxton”
- Japanese: “パクストン (フロリダ州)”
- Japanese: “パクストン”
- Ladin: “Paxton”
- Mazanderani: “پکستون”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Paxton”
- Newari: “प्याक्सटन, फ्लोरिडा”
- Newari: “प्याक्सटन”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Paxton”
- Norwegian: “Paxton”
- Persian: “پکستون”
- Polish: “Paxton”
- Portuguese: “Paxton”
- Russian: “Пакстон”
- Serbian: “Пакстон”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Paxton, Florida”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Paxton”
- South Azerbaijani: “پکستون، فلوریدا”
- Spanish: “Paxton”
- Swedish: “Paxton, Florida”
- Swedish: “Paxton”
- Tatar: “Пакстон”
- Ukrainian: “Пакстон”
- Uzbek: “Paxton”
- Uzbek: “Пахтон”
- Volapük: “Paxton”
- Welsh: “Paxton, Florida”
- Welsh: “Paxton”
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Highlights include Softball Field and Paxton Cemetery.
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